Argonne National Laboratory 
 
SERIES TITLE Health Effects of Exposure to Internally Deposited Radioactivity 
 
 
INCLUSIVE DATES ca. 1915 ca. 1993 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT Subject 
 
 
VOLUME approximately 1,500 cubic feet 
 
 
DESCRIPTION 
These records were created, identified, or collected by the staff of the Center for 
Human Radiobiology. They document efforts to locate persons with prior occupational, 
iatrogenic or experimental exposures to internally deposited radioactivity; the 
results of those efforts; and the results of dosimetric, medical, and epidemiological 
follow-up of the subjects over a period of years following first contact. The follow-up 
studies were focused primarily on radium, but included exposures to other radio 
elements and radioactive substances that emitted alpha particles. Among these were 
thorium, plutonium, americium, and thorotrast. This series is broken down into 
sub-series according to the type of radioactivity involved or to distinguish the follow-up of 
a clearly defined experimental exposure from the follow-up of other radium exposure. 
The subseries are: Austin Brues; Occupational and Iatrogenic Exposure to Radium; 
Elgin State Hospital Follow-up of Experimental Exposure to Radium; Occupational 
Exposure to Thorium; and Other Radioelements and Circumstances of Exposure. 
 
 
RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material.  
 
 
LOCATION OF RECORDS 
Argonne National Laboratory 
Environmental Research Division 
Building 202, Room A354 
Argonne, IL 60439